Another Study Links Playing in the NFL to Traumatic Brain Injury, Increasing Problem

As if there hasn’t been enough research that equates playing football to degenerative brain diseases, a study by Dr. Francis Conidi at the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology has added more fuel to the fire.

The lead researcher on the study, Conidi scanned the brains of 40 ex-NFL players—they were all relatively fresh out of the league, with an average age of 36. The researchers found that 43 percent of these players studied had significantly more damage to their brain’s white matter than healthy adults of the same age.